If I could kill intellectual property

I would kill our Gemstone project.

I think I know why I felt so remarkably unproductive yesterday, and haven't been feeling too good about anything academic all week. I do have a lot of things to do -- huge Biochem exam coming up on Monday, a group simulation project due for my business class by midnight Monday, newsletter for the pre-health office, keeping up with business law, and our Gemstone final presentation TOMORROW. The actual reason, though, is because my Gemstone project keeps butting into my life without due notice.

Namely, responsibilities keep popping up, and while I don't mind at all doing my share to help out, I do like some advance notice, because there is actually some structure to my life. However, certain members of my time don't care for other people's schedules and assign things out of nowhere and say, OH, by the way, I need this done in THREE HOURS. Or they say, OH, um, half of our presentation needs to be revamped, let's meet tonight at __ time, I don't really care what else is going on.

So, yeah. In the interest of maintaining peace with humanity, I would instead kill our project, and this would all go away. Sadly, this is not actually feasible.

I think I'm also grumpy because I haven't been sleeping well for the past several days. =/ I am just not in a happy place right now. Sorry to be such a downer.

(I cheated today, too, and posted after I woke up because even though I couldn't sleep 'til 4am, I couldn't really do much of anything, much less form coherent sentences).